New media can not only enhance the self-expression of your identity
but can be manipulated by it too!
Through accessibility, importance and ease of new media products
today, such as iPods and YouTube and other cross platform devices, using them
for self-expression has become much more prevalent. Levy (2006) suggests that
by simply viewing ones iPod music selection that you are able to identify them
as belonging to a certain category of people and even distinguish what type of
person they are. This does however raise the question and concern that people
may also choose to identify themselves as a particular type of person and
therefore somewhat strategically select their music and what they share to
portray this perceived identity. At the same time however by exposing ones
musical taste whether tailored or honest Levy (2006) suggests that with the
fast moving and easily accessible new media that one can enhance their own identity
due to the ease of sharing and therefore the discovery of new or unknown or
unexposed media.
Rebecca Black’s Youtube sensation Friday for instance began as
her identifying herself as a singer and ended in her becoming a current celebrity.
References:
Levy, S. 2006. The
Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture and Coolness. New York: Simon & Schuster
Paperbacks, pp. 21-41.
Black, Rebecca. 2011. “Rebecca Black – Friday.” YouTube video,
posted September 16, 2011. Accessed March 15, 2012. http://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0
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